John dean



J. DEAN. BRIDLBV BIT.

(No Model.)

No. 483,104. Patented Sept. 20, 1892.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFiCE.

JOHN DEAN, OF RAOINE, WISCONSIN, ASSIGNOR TO JOHN P. DAVIES, OF

SAME PLACE.

BRlDLE-BIT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 483,104, dated September 20, 1892.

Application filed April 21, 1892.

T0 aZZ whom it may concern:

pieces may press in toward each other without change of angle to the bar; and'to this end said invent-ion consists in certain peculiarities of construction and combination of parts to be hereinafter described with reference to the accompanying drawings, and subsequently claimed.

In the drawings, Figure 1 represents a plan View of myiniproved bridle-bit, partly in section, on line 1 1 of the succeeding figure; and Fig. 2, an end view of the same,part1y in section, on line 2 2 of the preceding figure.

Referring by letter to the drawings, A represents a mouth-bar of ordinary construction. Pivotally connected to each end of the mouthbar is a malleable casting that has its rear end in the form of a rein-loop B and its forward end in the form of a lever O, the latter being pivotally connected to a cheek-piece D, that is of ordinary construction, and has the rein-loop thereof encircling said mouth-bar. In practice if driving-reins E be connected to the loops B of the pivotal castings the bit will have the same action as an ordinary straight-bar bit; but if the reins be connected to the loops of the cheek-pieces D, as shown in the drawings, a pull on said reins will cause said cheek-pieces to press in toward each other Serial No. 430,069. (No model.)

without change of their parallel relation, as shown by dotted lines in Fig. 1, this result being due to the pivotal castings connecting the aforesaid bar and cheek-pieces.

I am aware that it is not broadly new to provide a bridle-bit in which the cheek-pieces may be caused to press in toward each other without change of their parallel relation, and hence Ido not wish to be understood as claiming anything more than my peculiar means for producing the desired result.

Having now fully described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. A bridle-bit comprising a mouth-bar, levers pivotally disposed thereon to have their forward ends swing toward the same, and rein-attaching cheek-pieces that encircle the mouth-bar independent thereof and are pivoted to said forward ends of the levers, substantially as set forth.

2. A bridle-bit comprising a mouth-bar, castings pivoted to the ends of the mouth-bar and comprising rein-loops B, integral with levers C, disposed to swing toward said monthbar from in front of the same, and parallel cheek-pieces D, that encircle the aforesaid mouth-bar free of the same and are pivoted to the lever portions of the castings, substantially as set forth.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing I have hereunto set my hand, at Racine, in the county of Racine and State of Wisconsin, in the presence of two witnesses.

JOHN DEAN. Witnesses:

J. B. HANSON, D. J. MOREY. 

